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Hace 5 días · The modern synthesis was the early 20th-century synthesis of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity into a joint mathematical framework. Julian Huxley coined the term in his 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
Hace 2 días · 20th century 1900s. 1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents ...
Hace 2 días · Advanced research centers opened in the early 20th century, often connected with major hospitals. The mid-20th century was characterized by new biological treatments, such as antibiotics. These advancements, along with developments in chemistry, genetics, and radiography led to modern medicine.
6 de may. de 2024 · Modernism, in the fine arts, late 19th to mid-20th century, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. It fostered a period of experimentation in literature, music, dance, visual art, and architecture. Learn more about the history of Modernism and its various manifestations.
Hace 5 días · Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. Among his best-known works are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1909) and Guernica (1937).
- Picasso is thought to have made about 50,000 artworks during his lifetime, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and ceramics. From his...
- For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to the whole development of modern...
- The value of Picasso’s art has never faltered: the artist was able to sell works at high prices during his lifetime, and since his death in 1973 hi...
- Pablo Picasso was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a professor of drawing, and Maria Picasso López. His father recognized the boy’s talent at a young a...
- In typical Andalusian fashion, Picasso was baptized with a long string of names (but sources vary on the order): Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paul...
11 de may. de 2024 · Electronic music is represented not only by a wide variety of 20th-century works and not only by serious concert pieces but also by a substantial literature of theatre, film, and television scores and by multimedia works that use all types of audiovisual techniques.
Hace 3 días · It is 50 years since Thomas Kuhn published the million-selling Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the work reviewed here rightly acknowledges Kuhn’s to be ‘by far’ the most cited and discussed 20th-century book about science (pp. 415–16). What has the history of science come to in the intervening half century?
